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Interview: iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home
Angle sees home robots as the way to collect the spatial information your smart home needs to be smart
Startup Nanoport Wants Your Obsolete Smart Phones to Be Your New Best Friends
Spinning out of the company that helped turn spherical magnets into the ultimate desk toy, Nanoport thinks old smart phones could be the next big thing
Understanding Crosstalk for Signal Integrity Applications
This white paper provides an introduction to crosstalk with a specific focus on signal integrity applications offering guidelines of what to watch out for when measuring crosstalk.
The Bandwidth Defender
A day in the life of professional radio-frequency-interference hunter Kevin Argentieri
R.I.P. SPARC and Solaris
Oracle’s latest round of layoffs marks the end of Sun’s SPARC and Solaris
Things You Can Do With an Extra Robotic Arm
The practical uses for an extra robotic arm are probably not what you're thinking
Nissan’s Next-Gen Leaf Drives Farther, Thinks Deeper
The original mass-market electric car now offers more range—and more smarts
Handheld Mass-Spectrometry Pen Identifies Cancer in Seconds During Surgery
Simple device attaches to mass spectrometer to diagnose cancer
Jet-Powered iCub Could Be the First Flying Humanoid Robot
Italian researchers are developing a control system that they hope will allow an iCub humanoid robot to hover on four jet thrusters
Engineering Managers Say Great Teams Need Diversity, Regular Retraining
Engineering leaders at Slack, Nest, and Facebook say solving big technical challenges requires teams with diversity
The Principles of Lock-in Detection
This white paper helps to increase the understanding of how lock-in amplifiers function, including signal mixing and low-pass filtering.
Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat Into Space
Radiative system could send heat from AC condensers out into space, reducing energy needed to cool buildings
Radio Frequency Hunters: Saving Your Cell Signal
RF interference could be causing your dropped calls. Engineers from P3 hunt down the source and shut it off
Video Friday: Powered Exoskeleton, Drone Shows, and Soft Robotic Mask
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Shielding Effectiveness of Expanded Metal Foils (EMFs)
The goal of EMC is the correct operation of different equipment in a common electromagnetic environment.
MIT Builds Drone-Based RFID Relay to Track Boxes in Warehouses
A drone-based relay dramatically extends the range of RFID, and could help retailers keep track of stuff
Someone Else’s Computer: The Prehistory of Cloud Computing
Well before Amazon Web Services, there was time-sharing and Tymshare’s Tymnet
Eye Scans to Detect Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease
Computer vision and machine-learning algorithms detect biomarkers in the white of the eye
Quantum Optical Memory Device One Thousand Times Smaller Than Previous Options
On-chip-scale quantum memory device is not only small, but is capable of on-demand data retrieval
Neato Adds Persistent, Actionable Maps to New D7 Robot Vacuum
This is the beginning of the most significant advance to robot vacuums that we've seen in years
Efficient Design of Integrated Photonic Circuits
This webinar demonstrates the automated link between IPKISS and CST STUDIO SUITE®, using the design of a glucose sensor to demonstrate how photonic layout and EM simulation complement each other.
Dutch Will Use Wind Power to Green Airports, But Solar is the Future Elsewhere
Unused acreage at airports is being used for renewable energy facilities, especially solar. But some restrictions apply
Clearpath Modernizes TurtleBot With Intel Euclid and iRobot Create
The latest version of the full-size TurtleBot promises to be easier to use than ever
Wi-Fi + HD Video + Drones = Still Wobbly
Using commodity Wi-Fi for high-definition FPV flying has rough edges
How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics’ Brain Race
With our brain-computer interface, paralyzed athletes sped their avatars across the finish line
Why George Keyworth Thought Science Belonged in the White House
Reagan’s science advisor died this week; Keyworth supported efforts to improve engineering education and believed “white coats” are an essential part of the White House team
Elusive Majorana Particle Takes Major Step Towards Quantum Computing
A long-theorized quasiparticle inches closer to discovery and its enabling of quantum computing
When Disaster Strikes, Flying Cell Towers Could Aid Search and Rescue
Base stations carried by drones would form an ad hoc network and connect first responders
Nanodiamonds May Help Make Lithium-Ion Batteries Better and Safer
Nanocrystals could prevent short circuits and fires and maybe allow for 10 times more energy storage
Drones and AI Take On Killer Sharks Down Under
Robots are an expensive but cool solution to a very rare problem
The Tech That Won the First Formula Student Driverless Race
On-the-fly mapping got the driverless car through a rainy day
Nanotube-Based Yarns Harvest Energy From Twisting and Stretching
Nanotube yarns offer an alternative to piezoelectric and triboelectric devices for harvesting energy
Video Friday: Robogami, Flying Snake Robots, and Autonomous Car Eclipse
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
Scientists showcase another way to hack into the brain to control physical behavior in mice
The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible
It’s time to embrace reversible computing, which could offer dramatic improvements in energy efficiency
What’s Eating the Bluefin? Nothing—It’s at the Top of the Food Chain
Just kidding. We’re eating it as sushi, and unless we cut back, we’ll drive this majestic fish to extinction
How Fast do Elevated Temperatures Reach the Cell Interior?
Numerical simulation is used to investigate stacking of lithium-ion cells during the fabrication of high-end battery systems.
Africa Leads the World on Drone Delivery: Flights to Begin in Tanzania in 2018
Drone delivery startup Zipline proved itself in Rwanda and is now expanding in a big way
Big Customers Demand 100 Percent Renewables—and Utilities Look Set to Deliver
Academics argue about its feasibility, but governments and corporations set their sights on a completely renewable future
Active Levitation Championed by rLoop in this Weekend's Hyperloop Competition
The firm's pods levitate under their own power, a flexible but energy-hungry strategy
qBitcoin: A Way of Making Bitcoin Quantum-Computer Proof?
Like many other encryption-dependent things, Bitcoin could be vulnerable to hacks by future quantum computers. qBitcoin would use quantum cryptography to keep it safe
Gyrotron Simulation with CST STUDIO SUITE
This webinar will show how to simulate a gyrotron using a 3D Particle in Cell (PIC) Solver. Topics covered include simulation set up and differences between simulation and measurements.
A $2 Million Contest Seeks Solutions to Big Internet Challenges
While the fictional geniuses in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” aim to reinvent the Internet, Mozilla and the NSF hope prize money will attract real-world innovations
Simplifying In-Vehicle Testing with the EX1401 DAQ System
This application brief describes a flexible, cost-effective, stand-alone datalogging solution that prevents the loss of critical data.
A Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050
Wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal could power most of the world argues Mark Jaobson and team
Capacitor Selection for Switch Mode Power Supply Applications
Faced with the availability of multiple capacitor options for use in high reliability SMPS applications, engineers need to consider performance characteristics and long term reliability when making their selection.
Biocomputer and Memory Built Inside Living Bacteria
Scientists have built the most complex biomolecular computer yet and stored a movie
Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
Handmade out of organic materials, Blossom is a creative new take on social home robots
Cyborg Bacteria Change the Game in Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Bacteria covered with semiconductor nanocrystals convert CO2 into acetic acid
When Diversity Delivers—and When It Doesn’t
IEEE Spectrum’s Q&A with Scott Page, author of The Diversity Bonus
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